[KOSU Commentary] It never occurred to me when I was a kid, that one day my bouncy, youthful name, Jennifer, would go the way of Myrtle or Agatha. That eventually, girls from younger generations with names like Sophie and Isabelle would think of my name like I once thought of Gladys and Ruby: Old and […]
Jennifer was the most popular name from 1970 to 1984
One day, my son Sullivan came home from Kindergarten and said, “There are a lot of Jennifer moms in my class.” Jennifer is one of the top five most popular names for girls in the last 100 years. During the coming-of-age years of Generation X, specifically, 1970 to 1984, Jennifer was the most popular name. […]
Jennifer Cavalleri and the promise of Jennifers
An article by writer Jennifer Graham appeared in Friday’s Boston Globe, The Rise and Fall of Jennifers. It’s a terrific piece about the once-youthful name now in rapid decline. Not only has it fallen completely off most-popular-names lists, but it’s starting to land, albeit only occasionally, in the obituaries. Here is an excerpt: “…But Jennifer was sneaking up on them. […]
The Name Jennifer goes the way of Myrtle
As you might have guessed by my URL, I was born in the Year of our Lord 1967. It was a fine year. Vietnam ended, sort of, but, I digress. Despite my name, the year 1967 was not a popular year for the name Jennifer. But, lord-have-mercy, by the time I was 15, there were dozens of […]
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